SwimEx exercise pool: any experience?
desertmarcy
14 years ago
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Comments (31)Hi Everyone- 3 months ago I hurt my foot and I believe it is a Jones fracture of the 5th metatarcil.The Dr. I saw dismissed it as tendonitis, and gave me no info or help because the fracture didn't show up on the X-ray. He was supposed to get me an MRI and that was 2 months ago. AS it got much worse from walking on it I went a bought a boot. Make a long story short, the Dr office has been dreadfully unhelpful,(different people call back, lose orders, etc) and I am in severe pain and back in the boot when I thought it was getting much better a few weeks ago,. But I was packing and moving and bending over to carry heavy boxes and twisted my foot and now the bone is painful, red and swollen again. It hurts all night when I try to sleep. I have a hard time finding a new doctor. Should I go to an Urgent care. It has been over 3 months I have been incapacitated. I am a single Mom and have no one to help me or drive me. Driving every day hurts but I have to. I cannot get motivated to go in to Urgent care but think I must. Any advice? (I had also herniated a disc in my back last fall and it took 6 months to heal) I am 49 yr old female. Some of the other Dr office I called said they aren't taking new patients...What to do? I had done this to my foot by taking a leap up into the air and landing on it (the one foot) wrong (was trying to demonstrate a dance move to my kids)It hurt for a few days before I realized something was wrong....See MoreConsidering a spool anyone with personal experience?
Comments (6)Thanks for the suggestions I really like the little grotto spool.It has been a rough week the excavator who said it was a three day job has been at the site for ten days. His first check $8,140.00 we paid on Thursday.He has at least five more days and any dream of being able to afford to pave the driveway patio and spool is dwindling. I had looked at the idea of a endless pool or swim spa and I think given the fact that the site and topography we started with bears no resemblence to what we now have it may be even a better option. Like many things here the word "fixed cost" doesn't exist. Knowing what the price of the pool the shipping and labor or self install sounds like a more controlled adventure.I need to explore why a spool as small as the picture like 6' x 6' is a comparable cost to a regular pool.At the end of a build here on St John you are so out of money it is difficult to finish the way you want to....See MoreGetting Cold Feet - Your experience please
Comments (5)Operating costs? If you can open and close the pool yourself, and you should learn to do that, the labor is free. I'm in CT. It takes me about a half-day to close my pool in the fall. I drain the water down overnight to drop the water level about 20" below normal. The next day I blow out the plumbing and cap all the water lines in the pool and spa shell. I drain the skimmer and put a couple of those collapsable/crushable thing-a-ma-jigs for freeze protection. I install the loop-loc pool cover. I drain the equipment (pump, heater, filer), clean the filter cartridges, etc. Close the propane valves on the tank and heater. To open the pool? Remove the cover. Winter snow and rain have my pool water level back up to full. Remove the plugs on the pool and spa return lines and from the skimmer basket. Prep the filter/heater/pump, which simply means closing any drain plugs, setting the cartridges in the filter, etc. Opening the gas valves for the heater. Takes a few hours to open the pool. Once open, I vacuum the pool and hit it with chlorine. I use liquid (12%) Chlorine. In a couple of days when the chlorine returns to normal levels, I do a full water test and balance as needed. My pool (20' x 40', about 20000 gallons) is open from April to mid-November. It has a side-spa. I don't heat the pool, but I do heat the spa. I have a variable speed pump, a Pentair 011018. Highly recommended. I draw about 2kW per day total running the pump on low-flow for about 10 hours a day, for about 2 hours a day it's bumped up to high-flow for spa use or when the sidewall cleaner is in the pool. It's quiet, and all the fluff about energy savings? For me it's true. Electricity is expensive in CT and this pump is saving me about $100 a month over what my old Pentair single-speed 1-1/2 hp Whisper pump cost to run. The level of savings surprised me. But it is real. Test kit? I recommend a good Taylor-type of test kit. The initial kit ran me about $100, but over time I'm probably spending $30-$40 a year to test. You need a good test kit. It'll save you big time in head scratching and in wasting chemicals as you chase balanced water chemistry. I sanitize with 12% liquid chlorine, about $3.50 a gallon. I use a little over a gallon per week, or roughly $20 per month. When I open the pool there's usually $50 each year to balance the water. Sometimes baking soda, sometimes acid, or whatever. Some years I open the pool and the water is perfect. All I have to add is chlorine. The Taylor-type of kit won't lead you astray. I spend roughly $200 on chemicals from opening day to closing day. Daily maintenance? I get cup of coffee most mornings and go out by the pool. It takes a few minutes to skim off any leaves or debris. Most days there isn't any. In spring (pollen) and fall (leaves) I may have to do it twice a day. Takes a few minutes. Once or twice a week I'll toss in the sidewall cleaner and let it run for a few hours. For me, daily maintenance is pretty minimal. The pool has been in now for about a dozen years. I swim most every day that I'm home. I have turn tiles on each end of the pool, so I swim laps. My kids are now out of the house. I wanted a pool, because I knew I'd use it myself. If I didn't want it and I put it in for my kids, or for my wife, or to impress the neighbors, then the pool might be a bit of a chore, even if the daily/weekly maintenance is minimal. Equipment? For a spa, I recommend you get a 400k heater. It essentially takes the same volume of propane or natural gas to heat your spa from 80-degrees to 98-degrees. A 400k heater simply does it faster than a 200k heater. I don't know much about heat pumps, but my understanding is they have a v-e-r-y slow response time. I have a Raypak 400k heater. No regrets. Easy to maintain. Pump. Already mentioned the Pentair. Quiet and efficient. I'd get another if this one failed. Filter. I over-sized my filter. I have a Pentair Quad DE 100 filter. I like cartridge filters, it may simply be because that's what I've always used. I only have to clean the filter carts once, that's at the end of the season when I winterize. With my old "properly sized" filter I had to clean the carts 2, sometimes 3 times a year. So...a lengthy reply. Hopefully somewhat useful. But it is simply my opinion on how my pool works for me. And how sometimes I work for it. lol Overall, no regrets....See MoreEndless Pools vs Swim EX?
Comments (2)Did you happen to get any feedback or make a decision on one of these pools? If so, would appreciate any advice you may have to share! Thank you!...See Morepoolguynj
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